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The only thing that worked for me was having a kid. He wakes up early every day, so I have no choice. Taking care of him is so taxing, being sleep deprived isn't on the table.

Two of my blog posts were on the front page earlier this year, netting 56k unique visitors. The visits were spread over multiple days, and should cover different timezones somewhat well. The analytics are located at an endpoint which looks vital, and should bypass most adblockers.

35.1% United States

8.0% Germany

6.5% United Kingdom

5.4% Canada

3.1% Australia

3.0% France

2.7% Netherlands

2.6% India

2.4% Sweden

1.9% Poland

1.7% Switzerland

1.6% Spain

1.4% Japan

1.4% Belgium

1.3% Italy

1.1% Austria

1.1% Finland

1.0% Norway

1.0% Brazil

7.0% Other countries

Still scrobbling since 2008. A lot of smaller artists used to upload their music to last.fm, and I found a lot of gems there (specifically in the swedish bitpop scene).

add new towns, creatures, heroes, artifacts and spells without limits or conflicts

If the original game had these features, it would likely have gotten me into programming at an even earlier age!

Very cool! I have one non-technical friend who occasionally wants to play HOMM, and she often has issues getting it working (specifically non-hd, non-hota on intel mac). This could be a remedy.

I love this... I haven't had the courage to "spend" my sticker collection on my current laptop, as they obviously don't last forever. A solution could be to photograph the old cover, and print it as a full-size sticker as a starting point for the next laptop!

Love it! I'll showcase my sticker collection on my laptop as soon as I come up with a way to make them reusable.

Bottom line: fun is basically about making progress on prediction.

I'm having some trouble parsing this sentence. Does he mean that "player has fun if their predictions lead to progress"?

Thanks for trying it! This is actually intentional, to make the game playable in the "end-game" where you level up ~every second :-)

It's a nice thought. If an idea could be encoded... that each persons idea of a concept, viewed in the right dimensionality, has a rough, similar outline. At least, that's my interpretation of your idea. :-) Your comment either triggered, or made me notice an ongoing shift in my worldview. Thank you!

IQ, along with shadertoy and hg_sdf are my learning resources for raymarching. A great way to get into demoscene production.

The most important thing in blogging is to get something simple that will not get the way of you actually writing.

Yes! I find the easiest way for me is to just open a new tab in my code editor and typing.

Exif is a real gotcha. I'm planning to compress images anyway, so this could be done in the same step.

Thank you for the kind words. RSS and dates will definitely be needed! I can also see myself wanting to embed shaders and web games in the future... hopefully without increasing the complexity too much. I think your blog is perfect!

That seems like a great stack, if you're looking for one!

Wow, yes.. that's actually exactly what happened here :-)

Looks nice and minimal as well. Love the look of your blog!

The markdown2 package includes an option for syntax highlighting. You need to bring your own css though.

I would be genuinely interested to know how well the average wordpress blog handles a hug from the HN frontpage! :-)

True! Luckily, I don't have a need for those features :-)

Thanks! Yeah, I find this a lot easier. And yes, hosting is an exercise left to the reader :-) I might write about my hosting setup in an upcoming blog post.

Oh yes, good catch! The code in the post is the first draft from O1 and this string has been replaced with {{ title }}.

That's fair!

1- I'm leaning towards an automatically generated file containing metadata, TOML or such

2- RSS is definitely coming, but is dependent on point 1 :-)

The difference in taste of Jolt is too large to be attributed to only caffeine and beet sugar.

While it's not open source, there is a successor to Jolt Cola in Germany called Volt Cola. It's supposedly the same recipe as Jolt, except it has more caffeine. Jolt was too long ago for me to compare the taste, but it's good.

"What's the FastAPI of frontend?" - A tweet I wrote 2022 I'll give this a go for my next project!

I have been able to disable+hide every element of the Zed UI which I don't have use for, so far.